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September 18

September 19

Alexandre M. Butlerov presented first definition and use of term "chemical structure" before Speyer Congress in 1861.

September 20

James Dewar, born 1842, showed many common substances phosphoresce at liquid air temperature; codeveloped cordite; in 1892, invented vacuum flask (Dewar flask); first person to liquefy hydrogen (1899).